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This article was copublished with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. At 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, with the sky still pitch black, the parking lot of the Executive Education Academy in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was unusually active. The …

The recent identification of 400 Iraq War veterans potentially exposed to chemical weapons has brought renewed attention to the critical role of the Veterans Exposure Team-Health Outcomes Military Exposures (VET-HOME) program. This initiative, launched under the PACT Act of 2022, offers specialized care for veterans suffering from military environmental exposures, …

Thanks to the conservative Supreme Court, thousands of Veterans Affairs Department rules and regulations are now vulnerable to court challenges, a scenario that could be ignited by a new Trump administration. As a young political staffer, one of the first hard lessons I learned was that in politics, there are …

Earlier this week, two Democratic senators announced they have requested a criminal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas — regarding, in part, a loan for a luxury RV provided by a longtime executive at UnitedHealth Group, one of America’s largest health insurers. Thomas apparently recused himself in at least …

Donald Trump signaled in an interview with a local Pittsburgh TV station that he is open to restricting access to birth control. KDKA aired an interview with the former president shortly after his defense team rested its case in his criminal hush-money trial in New York. “Do you support any …

Artificial intelligence tech has infiltrated every industry, and health care is no exception. We now have Together by Renee, an app that tracks your medical history, aims to gauge your blood pressure with a selfie, and detect depression or anxiety symptoms by the sound of your voice. DrugGPT, developed at …

The school had dirt floors and no chairs for the kids to sit on, let alone desks to work at. The 20 or so ninth-graders knelt shyly in formation on the carpet. Hana and I stood at the head of the room, two prep-school girls from the Upper East Side …

Last year, for the first time ever, a majority of Americans eligible for Medicare were on privatized Medicare Advantage plans. If Republicans win the presidential race this year, the push to fully privatize Medicare, the government health insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities, will only intensify. Conservative operatives …

Ron DeSantis, who in the Congress voted three times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, is now promising a less costly, “better plan” of his own to “supersede” it while bashing Donald Trump for failing to fulfill his vow to “repeal and replace” the popular health care legislation. He also …

Great documentaries tend to tell messy stories in a way that somehow makes them clear, honoring the messiness all the while. Such is the case with Savior Complex, HBO’s new three-part doc that digs into some contentious issues – including colonialism, medical ethics, religious fervor, and the limits of activism …